History Trivia / TheSuperMarioBrosMovie

** The Latin American Spanish dub is a quite subversion on this. While the dub had celebrities, they only voice random characters rather than the leads or any named character.

** Creator/CharlesMartinet does not voice Mario or Luigi this time around, with Creator/ChrisPratt and Creator/CharlieDay covering for those characters instead. Unlike most examples of this trope, he is still involved in the movie [[RemakeCameo as the brothers' father and Giuseppe]].

** Shortly before Nintendo went with Universal, an animated ''Mario'' movie was [[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adambvary/sony-nintendo-mario-bros-movie originally planned]] to be made by Creator/SonyPictures. Sony came close to finalizing a deal with Nintendo back in 2014, with a plan for Creator/GenndyTartakovsky to direct and Avi Arad to produce for [[https://twitter.com/dfffaz/status/1651786772223778817 a planned July 2019 release]]. Unfortunately for them, this happened shortly before the infamous Sony Pictures breach that same year, which not only [[ContentLeak leaked those plans]], but would cause the deal to fall off and for the film to get QuietlyCancelled shortly afterwards.[[note]]The fact that Sony is a major rival to Nintendo in [[Creator/SonyInteractiveEntertainment the gaming industry]] is also thought to have played a key role in the film's cancellation, but considering that how far talks went to begin with and Nintendo historically having no issue interacting with Sony's non-gaming businesses (specifically, Creator/SonyMusic), that aspect is likely to have been a non-issue.[[/note]]

** Creator/EricBauza provides Diddy Kong's single line, but he's only credited for voicing the Toad Councilor.

** The Latin American Spanish dub has an interesting subversion on this: According with Luis Leonardo Suarez, the movie's ADR director, he had to request to Nintendo, Illumination and Universal on not shoving local [[CelebrityVoiceActor celebrities]] for the main leads. While the final cut did had celebrities on the cast, they only voice random voices rather than named characters instead.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The licensed pop, rap, and rock songs were originally included in the early cut as temporary tracks by Nintendo and Illumination, but according to Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, [[PermanentPlaceholder several of those songs were kept because they felt that the music fit the scenes that they were making]]. Before the music was finalized, Music/BrianTyler made scores for those scenes, but unfortunately, much of his work for those scenes ultimately went unused despite his protests to use his material instead, with his musical cues only heard on the official soundtrack. (The only licensed songs that Tyler didn't create a score to replace with in the final cut were in the public domain -- "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (also known as "Habanera") from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', which plays when things go awry during the plumbing job, and "The Wedding March" by Music/FelixMendelssohn, which plays exactly where you'd expect it to.) One case where Nintendo and Illumination's veto was actually averted was during the climactic scene where [[spoiler:Mario and Luigi pick up the Power Star and take on Bowser and his armies]]; they wanted to play Music/VanHalen's "Jump" over the action scene, but Tyler successfully pushed back against this to include his original score.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Originally, Anya Taylor-Joy had no interest in playing Peach, knowing her infamous role as a DamselInDistress in most games, when she's made a conscious effort not to play [[ValuesDissonance customary roles that would demean women]]. When she found out Peach would instead be a much more proactive character than in past games, she signed up.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Originally, Anya Taylor-Joy had no interest in playing Peach, knowing her infamous role as a DamselInDistress in most games, when she's made a conscious effort not to play roles that would demean women. When she found out Peach would instead be a much more proactive character than in past games, she signed up.

** Creator/ScottMenville is typically known as either heroic characters like [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]] or [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Robin]], or as nerdy characters like [[WesternAnimation/MissionHill Kevin]], or even as a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs heroic gadgeteer]] like [[VideoGame/DarkChronicle Max]]. While [[WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan his last major villain role]] had some redeeming qualities and fit more to his archetype, here he voices the sadistic Koopa General, who is not only immensely loyal to Bowser and his cause, [[AxCrazy but actively tries to kill Mario and Donkey Kong himself]]. He also voices another Koopa Troopa (specifically the one who questions Bowser and gets turned into a Dry Bones as punishment) that fits more with his archetype.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Originally, Anya Taylor-Joy had no interest in playing Peach, knowing her infamous role as a DamselInDistress in most games, when she's made a conscious effort not to play roles that would demean women. When she found out Peach would instead be a much more proactive character than usual, she signed up.

** The reason why the typical green Yoshi didn't appear was due to not fitting in the story thus the story didn't want to include too many characters.

* CriticalDissonance: Many critics reacted to the movie with a negative reception at worst and lukewarm at-best. Audiences on the other hand, largely love the movie with 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes (as compared to the 59% critic rating).

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
** Writer Matthew Fogel said the movie was his favorite thing he ever worked on, especally since he's a fan of the games.
** Creator/GuillermoDelToro praised the movie along with WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse and WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/guillermo-del-toro-animation-box-office-success-annecy-1235514158/ for providing a window for the production of more adventurous and “rule-breaking” films in the genre.]]

** Creator/GuillermoDelToro prasied the movie along with WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse and WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/guillermo-del-toro-animation-box-office-success-annecy-1235514158/ for providing a window for the production of more adventurous and “rule-breaking” films in the genre.]]

** Creator/GuillermoDelToro has prasied the movie along with WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse and WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/guillermo-del-toro-animation-box-office-success-annecy-1235514158/ for providing a window for the production of more adventurous and “rule-breaking” films in the genre.]]

* CriticalDissonance: Many critics reacted to the movie with a negative reception at worst and lukewarm at-best. Audiences on the other hand, largely love the movie with 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes (as compared to the 54% critic rating).

** Creator/ScottMenville is typically known as either heroic characters like [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]] or [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Robin]], or as nerdy characters like [[WesternAnimation/MissionHill Kevin]], or even as a heroic gadgeteer like [[VideoGame/DarkChronicle Max]]. While [[WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan his last major villain role]] had some redeeming qualities and fit more to his archetype, here he voices the sadistic Koopa General, who is not only immensely loyal to Bowser and his cause, [[AxCrazy but actively tries to kill Mario and Donkey Kong himself]]. He also voices another Koopa Troopa (specifically the one who questions Bowser and gets turned into a Dry Bones as punishment) that fits more with his archetype.

** Creator/ScottMenville is typically known as either heroic characters like [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving]] or [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 Robin]], or as nerdy characters like [[WesternAnimation/MissionHill Kevin]]. While [[WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan his last major villain role]] had some redeeming qualities and fit more to his archetype, here he voices the sadistic Koopa General, who is not only immensely loyal to Bowser and his cause, [[AxCrazy but actively tries to kill Mario and Donkey Kong himself]]. He also voices another Koopa Troopa (specifically the one who questions Bowser and gets turned into a Dry Bones as punishment) that fits more with his archetype.

** Apparently according to Matthew Fogel (the writer of the movie), Bowser was originally going to be even ''meaner'' and more cruel than he already was in the movie, but then they decided to give him some more likable traits (most likely his LaughablyEvil demeanor).

** Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson has a very deep natural voice, something casting departments usually take advantage of when they need a voice for a character who is [[EvilSoundsDeep evil]], [[AuthoritySoundsDeep authoritative]], and/or [[BaritoneOfStrength exceptionally strong]]. Not only is the gravelly, elderly, [[LorreLookalike Peter Lorre-esque]] voice he gives Kamek completely unrecognizable, but as [[BigBad Bowser's]] [[SycophanticServant tiny, bootlicking yes-man,]] he actually plays comedic {{foil}} to the ''exact'' type of character he usually plays.

** Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson has very deep natural voice, something casting departments usually take advantage of when they need a voice for a character who is [[EvilSoundsDeep evil]], [[AuthoritySoundsDeep authoritative]], and/or [[BaritoneOfStrength exceptionally strong]]. Not only is the gravelly, elderly, [[LorreLookalike Peter Lorre-esque]] voice he gives Kamek completely unrecognizable, but as [[BigBad Bowser's]] [[SycophanticServant tiny, bootlicking yes-man,]] he actually plays comedic {{foil}} to the ''exact'' type of character he usually plays.

** Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson usually uses a deep, gruff voice for his characters, a stark contrast to the gravelly, elderly, [[LorreLookalike Peter Lorre-esque]] voice he gives Kamek.

** Originally, after failling to close the pressure valve and crash thought a brick wall, Mario would've give up on saving Brooklyn, telling Luigi to go back home, with Luigi looking concerned.